We all love WordPress. What makes more and more people fall in love with it is how easy it is to customize. With a few lines you get some cool customization with all those filters, actions and hooks. WordPress 3+ blewour minds with cool new features. But sometimes we need something quite different from the default. That’s what we’ll … Continue Reading

Who doesn’t want to earn money from blogging? I mean, sometimes you have shortages, sometimes comments let you down, payment is not THAT good. But you know, it’s still better than real work, right? (Troll’s comments in 3..2..1..) So instead of spending a few bucks in order to get a premium membership system, why not … Continue Reading

After enjoying a good weekend it’s good to start your week reading some funny things, right? That’s why we bring to you our brand new webcomic: 1stwebdesigner’s life. The comic will not just be about common situations every web designer encounters, but we also want to give you some ideas about how to deal with … Continue Reading

I know that you are really good in your field. Design, development or anything you do, I know that it is good, and you’re always trying to get better and earn a higher paycheck. Well, you know, you don’t have to be a finance expert, but money management is really important since if you don’t … Continue Reading

We talked about how to improve your HTML forms performance a couple of days ago. There we covered a pretty controversial topic “Don’t mask your passwords”, discussing how bad masking your passwords could be for usability. At this moment, we basically have two options: mask password field and don’t ask for any feedback, or show … Continue Reading

So, we started our dive into WordPress plugin development with the first part of this tutorial where we talked a little about planning, basic plugin structure, custom post types, metaboxes and how to add custom functions to WordPress’s defaults actions. Today we will talk a little more about metaboxes and jQuery, shortcodes, and front-end functionality. … Continue Reading

It is pretty common to see step-based content. Tutorials, shopping carts, FAQ’s, grandma’s recipes. You know, numbers and steps are really good to grab attention, so many writers use this. But, talking about HTML how should we write it? Most (all?) use numbers as text in headings, as they were common content. Well, let me … Continue Reading

Sometimes we get so used to doing things one way that we forget a little and important thing: to improve. We get so involved with all this CTA stuff that we forget other important things, like the contact form that comes after the pretty button. Our task today is to improve our form, to get … Continue Reading

Oh, variables. Who doesn’t love them? They are such nice guys, you know. When you need something, just call $something and your value is there. But something really cool is that you actually don’t need the name of the variable. You can use other variables to access a value of one variable. For example, let’s … Continue Reading

Crawler, spider, bot, or whatever you want to call it, is a program that automatically gets and processes data from sites, for many uses. Google, for example, indexes and ranks pages automatically via powerful spiders, crawlers and bots. We have also link checkers, HTML validators, automated optimizations, and web spies. Yeah, web spies. This is … Continue Reading